San Antonio-based grocer H-E-B has purchased the northeast corner of Lebanon Road and FM 423 in Frisco, but says it has “no current plans for a market entry for H-E-B.”

A spokeswoman confirmed the purchase, but said that doesn't mean a store is coming soon.

“We want to take this opportunity to reiterate that there are no current plans for a market entry for H-E-B,” spokeswoman Leticia Mendoza said in an email response.

Mendoza continued with a two-part statement that H-E-B has been giving me for many years:

1. “We have been watching the DFW market for the last 15 years, and our interest remains to this day,” Mendoza said. “As we review our long-term planning options, it often makes sense to purchase property in advance of our current real estate needs.”

2. For the time being, Central Market will continue to be its “primary format and growth vehicle” for Dallas-Fort Worth, she said.

So far, H-E-B has five Central Market stores in the area. The company has been circling Dallas for several years with its conventional H-E-B supermarkets in Waxahachie, Cleburne and Burleson.

In the past couple of years, H-E-B bought an 18-acre site inside Dallas County at Lake Ridge Parkway and Camp Wisdom Road in Grand Prairie. Another parcel is in Fort Worth at Boat Club and Bailey Boswell roads.

Mendoza said H-E-B will be watching fast growing communities like Frisco and plans to continue purchasing sites just in case it makes a decision to open more stores here "at some future time."